From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Subject: Re: [9fans] pop3 before smtp Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v552) From: Lyndon Nerenberg To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In-Reply-To: <20030711053303.2340e439.ggm@apnic.net> Message-Id: Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2003 13:44:58 -0600 Topicbox-Message-UUID: f3e8ee7e-eacb-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 On Thursday, July 10, 2003, at 01:33 PM, George Michaelson wrote: > I believe it was Charles Forsyth who pointed out to me S(imple) MTP > didn't make > much sense when the paper printout of the RFC was 1/2 an inch thick. I will forgo *that* discussion today, since I have to get some productive work done. However ... if you've managed to implement that .5 inch document, the incremental work to add AUTH with CRAM-MD5 (and LOGIN under SSL) can't be that bloody difficult. Okay, one e-mail protocols cheap shot: IMAP puts the S in SMTP ;-) --lyndon